Goals/Resolutions for 2014 – December Update

   Rose’s List of 2014 New Year’s Resolutions/Goals:

To be fair, only a few of my resolutions are book related. Here they are in no particular order:

1.   Walk Maddox at least once a day, every day. For those who do not know, Maddox is my 1 year of Doberman puppy. To say he is full of energy is an understatement.  I have taken him for an off leash walk around our walking trails in our community. It takes about 45 minutes. I come back exhausted. He comes back spritely and with an exuberant spring in his step. So yes, I am also considering a treadmill for my doggy. He needs more exercise than one 45 minute run can give him. So Maddox is 2 now. He is still full of energy. He went to the off leash dog park for the very first time ever for his second birthday. There he met another Doberman visiting from Dallas! They were instant friends! I was so proud of my “bubba” for being such a good friendly dobie. This has been a better year for us with Maddox. No broken bones, no medications aside from heartworm medicine. Maddox learned to walk on the treadmill. He went to several classes. All in all, I would say that it has been a good year with Maddox
2.   Ride Kissy (my horse) at least 10 hours/month.  I did a 30 hours in 30 days challenge last June and the difference in my horse was astounding. I would love to ride that often all the time, but the shorter days are really a drag on my time. (Although the arena has lights, so perhaps the shorter days is a poor excuse.) The biggest hardship with riding my horse is the long congested commute. It takes usually a little over an hour to get to the horse barn. Since I get home at 5 and want to be in bed by no later than 10, that is pushing it. I have not had much time this year for Kissy girl. I feel bad. After my car accident, I had to do a lot of physical therapy for my arm and even now, I still hurt. Sometimes, it simply hurts too much to ride. I would really like to make more time for Kissy this year. With me working full time and student teaching this spring, I do not know how that will happen, but that is what I would LIKE to have happen. 
3.   Speaking of bed, I am making my bedtime of 10pm a priority. In fact, I really want to make my bedtime 9 since I get up at 5 and that way I could get 8 hours. We shall see. Right now I am setting 10pm as my bedtime and well, its 10:14pm as I type this so go figure.  I completely forgot about this one. I mean, here I am up at midnight, typing this! And starting in two weeks, I will be working until midnight and going to bed at 1 am, only to be at school at 7am the next morning! YIKES!
4.   Give up the soda. I am one of those people that has to drink a coke every morning. It is my morning coffee. Well, this past year has seen me gain over 20 pounds, so I am definitely going to be cutting back on the soda.  I do not know if I can ever give it up completely, but right now I am weaning off of it. This I did! I have not had one drop of coca-cola classic since Aug 15, 2014.
5.   Working out more and getting into better shape. I lost a total of 16 pounds this year and have maintained it! yay! I would like to lose 15 more.
6.   Finish writing 2 books. Self-publish 2 books? Because I could say that I would do just one. Lets add more work on there.   I have not so much as typed a single word of fiction in over a month. This is depressing.
7.   Improve my Netgalley ratio. Doesn’t every blogger have this goal?  I think this might just prove to be impossible.
8.   Read 50 new books this year. Scaling it back a little from last years goal of 100. That was tough!  Okay, this goal I changed to 45 books, but I ended up reading 46. So yeah, I changed my goal just to make myself feel better. What of it!?
9.   Get my home library organized and on my goodreads shelves. I am doing this with hopes of preventing duplicate purchases. I just get so excited when I see a book on sale for $1.99 that I immediately click! I do not want to miss out on such a steal, right? But then it turns out that I usually already have at least two copies of the same book….go figure!  I did get my library straightened up some, so that is good, right? I bought new shelves and really, it is much better.
10. Use night time moisturizing eye cream. Because you can have silver hair, but no one likes wrinkles around the eyes. Or at least that is what I have been told. I really just want to avoid dying my hair, so I am holding off as long as possible… lol. So I choose to focus on my eyes right now and the hair can go hang. er something… …So I have been moisturizing at night, but I still skip it when I am too tired. Go figure.

How did everyone else do on their 2014 goals and resolutions? What are you goals for 2015???

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